I am doing my engine rebuild right now and am held up in some way due to waiting on C-F-M finding a new vendor for the billet gears for the oil pumps. I have heard mentions of a dry sump as another option. well I finally decided to investigate that route and it looks like its a fairly "simple" swap out, but it's about a $1,500+ set up?

What dictates if you should have a dry sump?

from my readings it looks like if you:

1. Do a lot of rally/auto-X (have extreme G forces and have the potential to be in a situation where your oil pump is starved due to oil being forced away from the pickup.

2. Or are a high RPM. It looks like on our blocks in most cases even with a built motor we don't make a whole lot of power over 7k RPM. So even if you run a crazy amount of boost or HP out of the motor as long as you don't take it over 7,400 RPM you should be fine with the stock pump?